Lieutenant Norman Champion de Crespigny, WW1
Lieutenant Norman Champion de Crespigny of the Queen's Bays, who was killed in action at Nery, near Compiegne in France on 1 September 1914. He was killed while leading his men against advancing Germans, and, while trying to take German guns with a revolver in his hand he was hit by shrapnel. He was buried at Nery but disinterred later and returned home to be buried in the family mausoleum at Champion Lodge, Maldon, Essex. He was one of the few officers whose body was returned to England before the practice was forbidden in 1915
Picture No
10699273
Media ID
46081796
Size
4450px x 5616px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Tatler, 16 September 1914
Date
1914
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